The Garland police blotter for Sept. 8-14 shows that seven sexual assaults were reported that week. It’s an odd number for a city that usually reports about 47 rapes per year – about one a week on average – according to official data.

But police noted there is no cause for alarm because none of the assaults are related.

“There is not one certain person involved in more than one of these cases,” said Officer Joe Harn, a spokesman for the Garland Police Department. “It’s all different individuals, different areas of town, different time periods that they happened.”

In six of the cases, the victim knows the suspect, Harn said. Police believe the victim in the seventh case might also be familiar with his or her attacker.

Three of the reports involve offenses that occurred at least a year ago, Harn said. The other four offenses happened within the month of September but not all necessarily on the day the victim filed a report, Harn said.

The offenses took place across town and not in a single neighborhood or district, according to police.